Re: [Harp-L] Re: Tony "Little Sun" Glover

[Joe Lempkowski <mr_jlemko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the clarification.  My question was
rhetorical.

I own a copy of his book and understand the timing and
impact it had on a large number of harp players.  It
was and still is a good book.  It's much more
entertaining that some of the text books that are
written today.

His writing style is unique and memorable.  Being
unique and memorable does not make a person a genius. 
People that have jumped off of the Golden Gate Bridge
and survived are unique and memorable.  

As a music critic, his opinion doesn't matter much to
me.  Personally, I don't find his opinion on music to
be very influential.  I've liked several CD's that he
did not view favorably and there are recordings that
he  likes which I don't care for.  There have been
some instances where we agree.

I've listened to his recordings.  They left me cold. 
I didn't find his music to be incredibly interesting. 
Hence, my comment about his teaching legacy surpassing
his musical legacy.  There are some people that really
enjoy his music.  Our opinions disagree.

Joe

--- Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joe Lempkowski wrote:
> <Forty years later, reading his
> <reviews of other harp players, he has no room to
> <criticize the performance of others.  I never
> really
> <understood what the fuss was about with this guy.
> 
> 1.  A music critic needs good ears and the ability
> to write well. 
> Glover has both, whether he's a great player or not.
>  Here's Glover's 
> last sentence from a review of Chess's boxed Little
> Walter LP set, maybe 
> three decades ago:
> "Genius is a f---ed-over word these days, but Walter
> was one for sure.
> What's more, he knows how to get you off."
> 
> I write this from memory, and I can do so because
> those words are 
> memorable.  Like I said, Glover can write.
> 
> 2.  Glover's book "Blues Harp" taught a generation
> of young players the 
> basics of blues harp, at precisely the moment when
> white America 
> discovered en masse the roots music of black
> America. It may not have 
> been the best book on playing harp ever written, but
> it was the right 
> book at the right time, and it was good enough to do
> the job.  It was a 
> great inspiration to me, and it was the main reason
> I approached Oak 
> Publications in 1976 to publish the book that
> eventually became "Jazz 
> Harp," which may in fact be the best book about
> playing the harmonica 
> ever written -- at least that's what Pete Pederson
> told me in 1981.
> 
> So Glover's made his mark on the world, and that's
> what the fuss is about.
> 
> Regards, Richard Hunter
> hunterharp.com
> 
> 
> 
> 


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